Curators of Markets, Designers of Place: The Case of the Street Food Scene in London

Design Issues ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Paz Concha
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Space Objects ◽  
Food Market

This article focusses on the work of street-food market organizers in London as a design practice. The argument is based on ethnographic research about the curation of the street-food scene, which aimed at understanding how market organizers created markets as economic entities and design marketplaces as urban forms. Space, objects, people, aesthetics, and atmospheres were designed into a marketplace with distinctive qualities. As such, market designers perform an important role as urban actors. They not only design the qualities of place but also use them to create inequalities in the street-food scene and the urban realm more widely.

scholarly journals Autistic children and adolescents and their parents: being and having meals together

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruna Muratti Ferraz de OLIVEIRA ◽  
Maria Fernanda Petroli FRUTUOSO
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Food Markets ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Shared Meals

ABSTRACT Objective his study analyzed collective activities, involving eating with autistic children and adolescents, their families and professionals and included walks to street-food markets, picnics and participating in Festa Junina, aiming at investigating feeding in the perspective of commensality. Methods Ethnographic research carried out, based on participant observation during a walk to the street-food market, picnic and Festa Junina, conducted with 19 children and 13 adolescents of an Institution for autistic people. The data recorded were analyzed within the phenomenology framework. Results The activities showed the interaction of autistic children/adolescents with space, people and food, revealing the way autistic people relate, belong and position themselves. The investigators highlighted commensality, emphasizing food as a mediator of relationships, considering a scenario that may present contradictions and power relationships, and allows new possibilities of being together with this audience, outside home and beyond therapeutic care. Conclusion Staying and eating in a group influences the autistic child/adolescent and the activities were configured as an invitation to shared meals, with unexpected behaviors that went beyond institutional therapeutic purposes.

scholarly journals Street Foods in Central Kenya: Actors, Trends, and Opportunities

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Moussavi ◽  
Krista Liguori ◽  
Khanjan Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Preparation Method ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Flexible Schedules ◽  
Central Kenya

Street foods served by vendors and hawkers are a popular snack or meal in most developing countries due to the industry’s widespread benefits. Benefits for vendors include low start-up costs, flexible schedules, and a fast return on investment, while benefits for consumers include affordability, fast service, and ease of accessibility, illustrating their symbiotic relationship. In many regions however, street foods lack adequate nutrition due to price and infrastructural constraints. Where street foods make up a significant portion of peoples’ diets, factors such as price, availability, and preparation method have direct implications on the economic status, food security, and health of a community. Research conducted in Nyeri, Kenya demonstrates the motivations behind buying and selling street foods, social and economic factors that influence these patterns, and their impact on vendors’ livelihoods, women’s empowerment, and consumer food options. This study, based on interviews with 50 street food vendors and 50 street food consumers who, moderately to regularly, buy and sell street foods, outlines the local street food market, obstacles faced by vendors, and recommendations for increasing the industries healthiness and social acceptance. General recommendations include social and political advancements, legal protections, education programs, and opportunities related to health innovation.

scholarly journals Analisis Kelayakan Usaha Street Food Untuk Pemanfaatan Lahan Parkir Pasar Modern

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Rangga Herbowo Putra ◽  
Endang Chumaidiyah ◽  
Meldi Rendra
Keyword(s):  
Net Present Value ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Internal Rate Of Return ◽  
Street Food ◽  
The Public ◽  
Land Rental ◽  
Potential Market ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The street food area of Modern Market Goldland, Karawaci is an area that is provided for buying and selling activities among small and medium enterprises with consumers. Declining interest of the public to visit the shopping center as a result of their online shopping site makes one of the reasons why street food area began to develop, other than that street food festival can also help promote micro-economy of a country itself. This study aimed to determine whether land rental business street food is already feasible in terms of aspects of the market, technical, and financial aspects. Analysis of market aspects are used to determine potential markets, available markets and target markets. After collecting market data by distributing questionnaires, the potential market percentage is 94%, the available market is 97% of the potential market, and the target market is 5% of the available market. Analysis of technical aspects was carried out to see the outcome and income that occurred in the street food rental business in the next 5 years. The results of the calculation of financial aspects, obtained the value of NPV (Net Present Value) of Rp. 95,516,306, the value of IRR (Internal Rate of Return) of 27.67% and PBP (Pay Back Period) of 4.2 years. Because the IRR value is greater than the MARR value that is 11.74% and the NPV value is greater than 0, then the land leasing business by utilizing the street food market laha Modern Goldlan, Karawaci is said to be feasible.

A Formalism Knowledge and Research Framework for the Field of Microclimate and Urban Form Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 1478-1483
Author(s):  
You Pei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Form Design ◽  
The One ◽  
Oriented Research

There is a close connection between urban forms and microclimates. Shaping an urban form with good climate performance is meaningful for sustainable development. However, there is a professional gap between the field of microclimate and urban form studies and the urban form design practice, which impedes the transformation of research achievements from the former to the latter and has an impact on the orientation of the research issues. This paper adopts a perspective of design-oriented formalism to construct a knowledge and research framework for the field. On the one hand, it presents the researches and knowledge in this field in a form that is easy to be understood by designers; on the other hand, it intends to reveal the design-oriented research path and issues.

scholarly journals Of robots and humans: Creating user representations in practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Fischer ◽  
Britt Östlund ◽  
Alexander Peine
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
User Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Design Activities

In this study, we explore the constitution of user representations of robots in design practice. Using the results of ethnographic research in two robot laboratories, we show how user representations emerge in and are entangled with design activities. Our study speaks to the growing popularity of and investment in robotics, robots and other forms of artificial intelligence. Scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS) have shown that it is often difficult for designers and engineers to develop accurate ideas about potential users of such technologies. However, the social context of robots and design settings themselves have received significantly less attention. Based on our laboratory ethnographies, we argue that the practices in which engineers are engaged are important as they can shape the kind of user images designers create. To capture these dynamics, we propose two new concepts: ‘image-evoking activities’ as well as ‘user image landscape’. Our findings provide pertinent input for researchers, designers and policy-makers, as they raise questions with regards to contemporary fears of robots replacing humans, for the effectiveness of user involvement and participatory design, and for user studies in STS. If design activities co-constitute the user images that engineers develop, a greater awareness is needed specifically of the locales in which the design of robots and other types of technologies takes place.

Space, objects, and motor actions

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. J. Masson ◽  
Daniel N. Bub
Keyword(s):  
Space Objects ◽  
Motor Actions
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